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Modern Times Sour Release #1 Dec. 4

Behold – the first Modern Times Beer sour release is upon us! After aging in a variety of red wine barrels for 15 months, 5 different wild ales are finally ready to be unleashed to the public. Bottles will be sold in advance via Brown Paper Tickets, beginning Thursday, December 4 at 10am PST.

Bottles can be picked up at the Lomaland Fermentorium from Thursday, December 11th until Thursday, February 12th

ID is required for pickup and must match the order form (AKA no proxies)

The beers:

Empty Hats – $26.87 per 750mL bottle, limit 3 per person

News from Nowhere – $26.87 per 750mL bottle, limit 3 per person

Rampart Junction – $32.04 per 750mL bottle, limit 1 per person

Oracle of the Bottle – $32.04 per 750mL bottle, limit 1 per person

Palace of Cracked Heads – $32.04 per 750mL bottle, limit 1 per person

Commercial descriptions:

Empty Hats is our red wine barrel-aged Oud Bruin. It features loads of dark fruit, horse blanket, and oak in the aroma. The flavor starts with a big red wine component, quickly followed by a strong tartness, funk, and a hint of warm malt on the finish, which lingers for ages. This is a very complex & extremely flavorful beer featuring the most red wine character of our sours.

News from Nowhere is our red wine barrel-aged Flanders Red. The aroma is bright with cherries, vanilla, & funk. The flavor starts out with raspberry, strawberry, and oak, quickly followed by a puckering sourness, and a long, red fruit-drenched finish. A bit lighter in body & tarter than Empty Hats, News From Nowhere is intense while offering a nuanced array of flavors.

Oracle of the Bottle is our red wine barrel-aged Cabernet grape sour (News From Nowhere is the base beer.) After 11 months in red wine barrels, we added 50lbs per barrel of Cabernet grapes, which spent 5 months in the barrels before bottling. The resulting beer is very tart & bright, with a gorgeous blood red hue and a wine grape saturated finish. Oracle of the Bottle is a fascinating marriage of sour beer & wine.

Palace of Cracked Heads is our red wine barrel-aged nectarine sour (Empty Hats is the base beer.) After 11 months in red wine barrels, we added 50lbs per barrel of fresh, organic, heirloom nectarines, which spent 5 months in the barrels before bottling. The resulting beer is saturated with fresh nectarine flavor & aroma, complimented by a hugely funky aroma & a loads of sourness.

Modern Times Lomaland Fermentorium is located at 3725 Greenwood St. in San Diego, CA.